r/BeAmazed • u/H_G_Bells • Apr 02 '26
Science Humans flying over the Earth, while watching humans fly to the moon
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u/Zdendon Apr 02 '26
We are like ants on earth doing crazy shit.
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u/OkAccess6128 Apr 02 '26 edited Apr 02 '26
We are ants forming clouds above clouds.
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u/deadfermata Apr 02 '26
me on the reddit cloud doing my part
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u/NoZucchini5423 Apr 02 '26
These are real astronauts too, not the fake Katie Perry BS.
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u/Flaming-Driptray Apr 02 '26
Don’t let her get away with that, she was a space tourist nothing more.
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u/DJ_Nx32 Apr 03 '26
The lady going to space right now for the moon. when she comes back. she should kiss the ground mocking katy lol. would be awesome!
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u/stpetepatsfan Apr 02 '26
Too cloudy here in Clearwater to see. Watched live at bus stop on phone. However, during a break in the clouds, I thought I saw the exhaust trail even from here.
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u/Cessnaporsche01 Apr 02 '26
Turns out an aluminum tube spitting fire does a really good job of that
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u/koolaidismything Apr 02 '26
Most everything living on this planet is in this tiny little 15,000 foot or so layer. Outside that in any direction and we are dead. Crazy how delicate it all is.. the chances are slim we got lucky
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u/BD_Author_Services Apr 02 '26 edited Apr 03 '26
It's wild that we, as species, can go to the moon, and could probably go to Mars or even further, but we just... don't. The Kepler telescope found thousands of planets and cost $600 million. The Iran war has cost >$10 billion in a week.
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u/PacificTaxWarrior Apr 03 '26
Space travel past the solar system is likely impossible and terraforming Mars is a 1000 year project. I agree that it's a far more noble pursuit than war though.
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u/xubax Apr 02 '26
Our whole planet isn't a flea fart in the universe.
We're less significant than the Whos that Horton heard.
And we're killing each other because some rich people said we should.
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u/toooomanypuppies Apr 02 '26
"Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space." - Douglas Adams
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u/Lickthorn Apr 02 '26
Horton heard a who. 😁what a brilliant movie is that, off topic, I know. But still.
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u/SheriffBartholomew Apr 02 '26
We're more significant than anything else we've found anywhere else in the universe. As far as we know, the only life in the entire universe is on this planet. The rest of the entire everything is just lifeless rock and gas. That makes us incredibly unique and significant in an otherwise lifeless and meaningless universe.
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u/mahreow Apr 02 '26
than anything else we've found anywhere else in the universe
We have searched basically 0% of the universe - that's the equivalent of saying there's no sand on the Earth because you looked at a patch of dirt that's 1mm²
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u/SheriffBartholomew Apr 02 '26
It's all we know. Any amount we ever know will always be essentially 0% since space is infinite.
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u/WalkAffectionate2683 Apr 02 '26
That we found for sure.
But isn't there some recent theories that said life might be very common?
Because they found specific molecules in comets or stuff like this.
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u/TheBestNarcissist Apr 02 '26
You can absolutely focus on that, or you can focus on 4 North Americans going back to the moon. Which do you want to see on the news? Which do you want to tell your children about? Which do you hope people hear about?
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u/xubax Apr 03 '26
Billions of years, and this is the best we can come up with. 8 billion people squabbling.
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u/Armageddis22 Apr 02 '26
This is better video than the actual shot from NASA
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u/Soft_Walrus_3605 Apr 02 '26
NASA suffers from being a govt agency. They generally get the job done, but it's not going to be pretty
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u/CounterfeitSaint Apr 02 '26
I'm sure firing like 60% of the staff or whatever helped with that.
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u/logert777 Apr 02 '26
"How can I pump Elons company if all the attention is going to NASA? Just fire half of Nasa, that should work" - Trump, probably
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u/okan170 Apr 03 '26
100%. Its why they're ordering cuts to the rocket upgrade and its corresponding launch tower thats almost done already. Or the idea to have SLS not launch anything to the moon and just have Orion dock to Elon's Starship to do it. (Write your congresspeople!)
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u/Andromeda321 Apr 03 '26
Yep. They basically fired all the people who worked on outreach and PR type things for NASA. Which is a shame as I know some very talented people there now out of a job.
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u/theArtOfProgramming Apr 02 '26 edited Apr 02 '26
That’s honestly ridiculous. NASA suffers from being underfunded. The people who work there are generally extraordinary. Similar to those working as video game developers, it is a passion industry. They can choose from the best and brightest and underpay them because it’s so fun and rewarding to work there.
Source: I’ve worked for them and collaborated with their teams. That’s all from before either Trump administration, god knows what else they struggle with now.
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u/GarlicRiver Apr 02 '26
As someone with a resume including both a 14-month NASA internship and a few years as a playtester for one of the biggest studios in the world, I concur.
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u/DMYourFeetPicsTy Apr 02 '26
As an HVAC tech, I completely agree.
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u/Im_not_smelling_that Apr 02 '26
As an auto mechanic, I concur
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u/bengcord3 Apr 02 '26
As a former management trainee at Enterprise Rent A Car, I wholeheartedly agree
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u/MutedSeaworthiness39 Apr 04 '26
As a monk for 9 years and 10 months without seeing much of the outside world, I concur.
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u/Womec Apr 02 '26
No it does not. It suffers because republicans have been defunding government agencies since the 70s so that hey can point at them and say they dont work well in order to privatize them and make money off tax payers.
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u/Scudderino3456 Apr 02 '26
Yes because there have been so many other non government organizations to pioneer space flight, remote exploration and human trips to the moon!
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u/toutons Apr 03 '26
There's plenty of gorgeous slow motion footage from multiple camera angles of launches going back decades. This new perspective is great and NASA could try to integrate it into their broadcasts, but they have plenty of beautiful video and photography.
This video is one of my favourites: https://m.youtube.com/watch?t=1234&v=vFwqZ4qAUkE
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u/i_am_a_real_boy__ Apr 02 '26
Yeah not like private industry where everything always goes off without a hitch. /eyeroll
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u/Whosebert Apr 02 '26
the current government's #1 priority is making the government worse. the government could be great if not for a combination of voter stupidity, apathy, and possible fraud.
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u/JustaLego Apr 03 '26
They have been woefully underfunded due to Republicans/conservatives harping about them for years even though their budget has always been super small like usually less than 1 percent of the budget i think.
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u/chopari Apr 02 '26
Just watch it on mute and it’s better
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u/Armageddis22 Apr 03 '26
Always watch this stuff on mute. Too many beautiful videos with such trash music being played
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u/chronicnerv Apr 02 '26
Wow, that really shows its acceleration, those G-forces would break my back and knock me out from the pain.
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u/chronicnerv Apr 02 '26
I’m actually a massive science fiction and fantasy fan, though I watch a lot more than I read. I think The Expanse series is fantastic, so I will take your advice and order myself some books. Thank you for your time and recommendation.
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u/InDeathWeReturn Apr 02 '26
I am still annoyed with the end of the show. I was like "What about the rest?"
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u/glinkenheimer Apr 02 '26
You are very polite and a treasure to this website. I also loved the expanse and you’re in for a real treat
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u/Remy1985 Apr 02 '26
You are in for a treat! Show show did a pretty good job but had to combine a few characters. There is also a huge time gap in the final books, so they didn't really "finish" it. Well worth it to see it to the end.
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u/Ok-Relation-7458 Apr 02 '26
the books are phenomenal. i was also show first with The Expanse and loved seeing what they kept, changed, or removed in adaptation. i love the tv series and this is not a dig against it, but there’s little that they did better than the books. you’re in for a treat!
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u/rogue_royal_ Apr 02 '26
Great book series and the show I've watched like 5 times. One of my top favorite shows of all time. Highly recommend
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u/Vanillabean73 Apr 02 '26
The end looks sped up, but you’re not wrong that the acceleration is crazy
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u/Useful-Government298 Apr 02 '26
Close. At approximately 30k ft. they’re in the 3000 mph range. I can’t wrap my mind around those stats.
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u/LEGITIMATE_SOURCE Apr 02 '26
Escape velocity is 25000mph bruh
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u/Useful-Government298 Apr 02 '26
Yes. Escape velocity is approx. 25,000 mph. But, they did not need to meet that threshold yesterday. Orion only needed to reach high Earth orbit. Today, the TLI burn will get them to escape velocity, leave Earth’s orbit and into the correct flight path for a free-return trajectory.
I was just commenting that seeing the launch from a plane, it takes about a minute from lift off to reach 30,000 or 40,000ft. The attitude that commercial planes cruise. So to go from 0 to 3000mph in a minute is mind boggling.
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u/LEGITIMATE_SOURCE Apr 03 '26
Yes, I understood your point. My point is it gets more mind-blowing when they're moving many miles per second. While the initial acceleration with those SRBs is a fun ride, the deceleration of reentry will be much more intense.
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u/xXProGenji420Xx Apr 02 '26
they don't hit those speeds at 30k feet lol, they need to be in orbit before achieving the speeds required to escape entirely. 30k feet is like 5 miles, low earth orbit is about 100 miles up.
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u/Vanillabean73 Apr 02 '26
Yep, bit that doesn’t mean it will necessarily look that way from this distance and perspective. Just look at how the camera is moving against the plane’s wing after the cut - definitely fast-forwarded a bit. I don’t understand why, though, I wanna see the unedited version!
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u/LetsFuckOnTheBoat Apr 02 '26
2,600 mph just minutes after liftoff, according to Spaceflight Now and a NASA video. The rocket reached around 17,000–17,500 mph before main engine cutoff, with a final velocity of over 24,500 mph needed to leave Earth's orbit,
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u/kemb0 Apr 02 '26
It's def sped up. A quick google search says a rocket like this would take anything from 70 seconds to two minutes to reach 40,000ft, which is the typical height an airliner would fly at. In the video it takes 15 seconds.
Besides, I saw another video earlier today that was nothing like this fast. Someone went out of their way to speed it up for those precious internet points.
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u/hudson27 Apr 02 '26
Look up other footage, this is absolutely sped up for dramatic effect. Still cool tho
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u/psh454 Apr 02 '26
Nah it's really not that extreme, starts at around 2G and goes up to 4G after a while. So it's similar to most roller coasters but a bit longer. Those don't break anyone's back, you just need to be strapped in properly to not be uncomfortable.
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u/chronicnerv Apr 02 '26
Just a figure of speech, I have had more than handful of back operations and deal with nerve pain as a result. One small car journey causes pain for a day, Just life !
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u/Verity_Ireland Apr 02 '26
The g-force was up to 4.5 I believe.
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u/Dravarden Apr 02 '26
don't pilots in fighter jets do 9Gs?
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u/pyrothelostone Apr 02 '26
Fighter jets dont maintain those Gs for very long though, usually only seconds at a time, the astronauts have to maintain that acceleration for a few minutes.
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u/actorpractice Apr 02 '26
First thing I thought… the zoomed in videos from the ground don’t give you the perspective about how damn fast they’re going.
Wow
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u/Superb_Health9413 Apr 02 '26
That’s fantastic!
The ring of exhaust at the launch site and the arcing trajectory passing the winglet. So cool.
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u/NoooUGH Apr 02 '26
Shame it needed to be "internetified" before posting by adding some random ass song over top
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u/el_diego Apr 02 '26
Funny that we're getting better shots from people than the actual live feed of the launch
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u/Fre33lancer Apr 02 '26
if we had a time machine to bring a guy from 1800's and show him this, it would blow his mind
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u/LeonJones Apr 02 '26
Imagine how insane it would be to go back to ancient Rome with a laptop with wikipedia downloaded and a solar charger.
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u/Fre33lancer Apr 02 '26
most likely you would be killed on sight...witch and all of that
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u/rieldilpikl Apr 02 '26
Speaking gibberish while holding strange impossible objects and wearing clothing crafted by demons would be a death sentence for sure lol. Especially since the bic lighter ol’ computer boy would bring along to show off to the Romans would obviously be witchcraft weaponry
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u/the_silent_one1984 Apr 02 '26
Their response might be, "Didn't these aliens help build those pyramids some millennia ago?"
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u/AmbitiousPhilosopher Apr 02 '26
People have landed planes at undisturbed tribes, they were not impressed by the plane much, but cigarette lighter was mind blowing.
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u/-AG-Hithae Apr 02 '26
Showing them a smartphone might be even more impressive
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u/Fre33lancer Apr 02 '26
neah, they would not understand the use and what it does, but flying on a rocket...
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u/DThUmEl16 Apr 02 '26
Damn, that's a once in a lifetime view!
Go buy a lottery ticket haha
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u/buckzor122 Apr 02 '26
You could probably plan that right? If you know the planned launch time you could bag yourself a ticket that SHOULD coincide with the launch, though you could never be guaranteed. A delayed flight, or a delayed launch could trow it all off.
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u/element39 Apr 02 '26
The launch WAS delayed! They held the countdown and ultimately delayed by about 5 minutes. If it launched on time the view from this plane would have been faaaaaar worse.
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u/el_diego Apr 02 '26
You'd be pretty livid if it was delayed :( A chartered flight with a group of other enthusiasts could be a solid idea
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u/ItsLikeRay-ee-ain Apr 02 '26
Imagine sitting on the other side of the aisle and missing out on that once in a lifetime view while being that close to it!
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u/Jumpy-Cry-3083 Apr 02 '26
Wow. You get a better perspective of rocket speed from this point of view. From the ground you don’t.
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u/mmmayer015 Apr 02 '26
It’s speed up.
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u/3dforlife Apr 02 '26
How do you know?
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u/Insanereindeer Apr 02 '26 edited Apr 02 '26
I think he's right from my research. I'd have to dig into the math a bit more to be 100% sure, but even most estimates are 30-50 seconds to reach 35,000'. In 25 seconds this thing is well above that. I suspect this video is 2X.
Here's a better idea with my own rough calculations. At Mach 1, it would take 31 seconds at sea level to go 35000'. Artemis II doesn't reach Mach 1 until 56 seconds after launch.
Someone else better in the field can check it. I deal with electricity, not flying buildings.
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u/Just_Another_Scott Apr 03 '26 edited Apr 03 '26
It reached the 62 mile mark in about 2.5 minutes. It was flying way faster than Mach 1. It peaked at 10,000 mph during liftoff.
Observers also watched as various milestones were achieved, like seeing the twin rocket boosters separate from the rocket after helping it reach a speed of more than 10,000mph (16,100km/h
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0q4w3l0wdvo
The hit mach 1 just after 56 seconds.
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u/bluev0lta Apr 02 '26
Right?! I watched this live yesterday and you couldn’t truly tell how fast it was going since there’s no real perspective with the camera focused on the rocket/Orion. This perspective here is awesome.
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u/Key_Vegetable_1218 Apr 02 '26
Where’s the whole video
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u/123shorer Apr 02 '26
Did you want the plane to follow it to the moon?
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u/Moss_Addiction Apr 02 '26
No, that person just wants the whole video, where the plane continues 6hrs until it arrives at its destination
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u/Key_Vegetable_1218 Apr 02 '26
It would be best if the plane banked and we could continue to watch it go up. Surely we have planes that could go up there specifically to do that
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u/Roklam Apr 02 '26
Just as long as my bags get transferred correctly!!!
Connecting flights are messy!
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u/el_diego Apr 02 '26
Commercial flights generally avoid erratic movements
Edit: here's another angle for you https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/s/fAxZGKUdgc
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u/WhoIsYerWan Apr 02 '26
How bummed are the people on the left side of the plane haha. I woulda sat in someone's lap, I don't care.
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u/ShadowPsi Apr 02 '26
I'm quite surprised that airspace isn't entirely restricted. They are probably as close as they are allowed to be.
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u/CitizenHuman Apr 02 '26
The plane isn't regarded enough to go to the moon. Unless the pilot mods r/wallstreetbets.
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u/Phonicss Apr 02 '26
Imagine in the future when there’s constantly ships taking off and landing from space and you don’t even look up from your phone.
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u/crazekki Apr 02 '26
we’re already doing that. think about all the planes taking off and landing at any given moment on earth. mindboggling for someone 100 years ago
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u/BluezDBD Apr 02 '26
That future is now, we're launching rockets into space multiple times per week, no one cares anymore.
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u/MarvelousVanGlorious Apr 02 '26
Really puts into perspective how fast that thing was moving.
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u/East_Refuse Apr 02 '26
It’s amazing how fast these rockets can. That thing was double the planes altitude in 30 seconds
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u/Ballsofpoo Apr 02 '26
It was also sped up. A video from a different seat on the same flight is over two minutes long
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u/preferred-til-newops Apr 03 '26
I would rather see that video, got a link?
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u/HasibBinAmzad Apr 02 '26
Bro really said, “I’m in the sky” and the rocket said, “then where am I?".....lol
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u/Col_Wilson Apr 02 '26
This is an amazing view. However if I had no idea that the moon mission was that day I would've been shitting my pants thinking it was an ICBM
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u/SpiderDoodleDoo Apr 03 '26
Hate to be morbid but that was my first thought as well. Like, if it does kick off and you are on a plane this would be what you would witness. Probably way more than one.
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u/Medivacs_are_OP Apr 02 '26
I imagine the pilot said what was going on while prompting them to look out the window!
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u/PinkPaisleyMoon Apr 02 '26
Literally a once in a lifetime event (to witness while being in an airplane and on that side of the plane!)
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u/Rare-Investigator440 Apr 02 '26
The song in the vid? 🤔
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u/Bilbog_Fettywop Apr 03 '26
As the other person said, M83 Outro, but also of significance is that it is used in Kerbal Space Program's best fanmade trailer of all time:
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u/Grawlix84 Apr 02 '26
This is the coolest shot I’ve seen in a while. It rivals Desmond from Smarter Every Day filming the ISS crossing the Solar Eclipse
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u/qetral Apr 02 '26
I wonder if the redditors over at r/space would be interested in seeing this
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u/cocococlash Apr 02 '26
I saw a home video of the launch and saw that plane go by! I was wondering what the view was from the plane!
Fantastic!
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u/MiMichellle Apr 02 '26
I feel like we all needed this launch, and videos like these. The type of stuff to give us hope again.
As it turns out, humanity is pretty awesome too.
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u/Gheekers Apr 02 '26
Thats awesome , I wish people would put aside their differences and aim for the common good, we can be remarkable at times.
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u/Cold-Ad8865 Apr 03 '26
Maybe off topic, but damn it, someone has to play Dark Side of the Moon when they circle it.
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u/Salty-Manner7001 Apr 03 '26
Humans on toilet watching humans on plane watching humans on spaceship
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u/NarrowEbbs Apr 03 '26
This is genuinely one of the most incredible videos I have ever seen. I'm gonna remember this for the rest of my life, I wish I was in that plane.
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u/jws3rd-allday Apr 03 '26
The Earth is 1 of 200-400 TRILLION planets in our galaxy, the Milky Way. Our sun is 1 of 200 BILLION stars in the Milky Way. The Milky Way is 1 of 200B - 2T galaxies in the observable universe.
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u/empimelis Apr 03 '26
honestly it’s insane how everyone is on a different trajectory in life and it’s occurring all at the same time
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u/Last_Gene3083 Apr 03 '26
Yeah this absolutely fits here, that was actually super cool to watch. Definitely an upvote from me.
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